Faced Storm Petrel

Famous quotes containing the words faced, storm and/or petrel:

    “The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.”
    —Gail Sheehy (b. 1937)

    “After the brief bivouac of Sunday,
    their eyes, in the forced march of Monday to Saturday,
    hoist the white flag, flutter in the snow storm of paper,”
    —Patricia K. Page (b. 1916)

    “Through the dark cold and the empty desolation,
    The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters
    Of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)